“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.”
– Tacitus
 

”A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
- Rosalynn Carte
 

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention. ~ Tom Peters

I wonder if Tom Peters said this after reading – the National Credit Act, or the Consumer Protection Act, or the new Companies Act?

” In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.”
- Margaret Wheatly
 

” When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.”

Samuel Goldwyn
 

“I hope that when I die, people say about me, ‘Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.’ ”
- Jack Handey
Every credit manager’s nightmare…….
 

 ”All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
 

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
 

“What is the managers job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite — and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.”
Peter Drucker
 

“There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees.”
Ricardo Semler